Word: savoyism
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...last week Critic Swaffer of the London Sunday Express (circulation 538,889) sat at lunch in the Savoy grill, crowded with Londoners eating solid, expensive food. Up to his table stalked Actress Lillian Foster, U. S. star of Conscience, just opened in London...
...mort! A mort! Death! Death!" screamed excited Belgians, ripe for a lynching. Soldiers with fixed bayonets hustled the would-be assassin away. Prince Umberto, without turning round continued the ceremony, laid a laurel wreath bound with the arms of Savoy on the Unknown Soldier's grave, then insisted on reviewing the guard of honor...
...questioned concerning her opinion on the innovation to be tried in the Savoy Theatre of London, where all the seats are to be covered in colors to match the frocks of women patrons, and replied...
...play Wagner's opus picturing the Valkyries' ride above the clouds while his audience was similarly situated. As the piano did not fit into the Zeppelin's salon, Pianist Gourevitch and the Valkyries had to wait for his concert last week in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel...
Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families, was, last week, taking a bath in his apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza. In his rooms were several bottles of champagne, some cognac. The Count intended giving a dinner. But before he had finished his bath Federal agents entered his apartment, seized the liquor, discovered and seized also a pistol, arrested the bather...